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Antique Roses: Great Garden Companions
When designing your landscape, think about how to include roses in any and all of your gardens instead of creating a garden for only roses. Interplanting roses with other types of ornamentals creates a more pleasing garden, and the plants will be less prone to pest problems than they would be in a traditional rose garden.
In particular, antique garden roses (roses introduced before 1867) enjoy the company of other plants. Their graceful arched, sprawling, or rambling forms can highlight fences, trellises, and walls. Or they can be trained as a living fountain, showering sprays of fragrant blossoms from eye level to the ground. A smaller variety can serve as a focal shrub in mixed plantings with irises, daylilies, peonies, or other shrubs and bordered with geraniums, dianthus, a plethora of other perennials, and herbs. Some varieties can even be grown in containers to accent walkways, where their scent of myrrh, cloves, or tea will entice visitors.
